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2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

THREAT ASSESSMENTS

BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03 White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011, 4:00 P.M. EDT: Presiden Barack Obama and his inner circle anxiously watch aerial footage of one of the highest-stakes and riskiest operations ever carried out—a team of elite Navy SEALs raiding a fortified compound in Abbotta…

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2017 Issue 1May 4, 2017December 12, 2018

WESLEYAN MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT: THE ROUTE TO DIVERSITY

Want to know more about the history of diversity at Wesleyan? This Wesleyan magazine article, published in 1999, provide…

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2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

PAGAN KENNEDY ’84 CHARTS AN UNCOMMON LITERARY COURSE

BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03 PAGAN KENNEDY ’84 has always seen things a little differently. When she recently met Abby Solomon, a 21-year-old with a rare genetic condition that prevents her from eating more than a few bites …

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2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

THE BACKSTORY by Gina Athena Ulysse & Claudine Nash ’92

The stories behind the words: Poems from Gina Athena Ulysse ("I am a storm," from Because When God Is Too Busy) and Claudine Nash '92 ("The Problem with Loving Ghosts," from Parts per Trillion). GI…

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2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

SHAWN DOVE ’84: THE MINISTRY OF REVERSING THE TREND

BY ANDREW FAUGHT SHAWN DOVE ’84: THE MINISTRY OF REVERSING THE TREND Twenty-one years ago, the Urban Institute think tank issued a report that highlighted 51 “promising” or “effective” programs that worked to i…

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2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

HYUNGSOO KIM ’02, MA’03 IS MAKING TIME ACCESSIBLE—AND FASHIONABLE

BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03 HYUNGSOO KIM ’02, MA’03 IS MAKING TIME ACCESSIBLE...AND FASHIONABLE The first time Hyungsoo Kim made a prototype watch for visually impaired people, it flopped. His first mistake was displ…

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2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

OTHER WORLDS

BY ERIC BUTTERMAN A U.S. Navy man, a customs inspector, even a cabbie—that’s a bio we can buy. But an acclaimed sci-fi novelist who didn’t publish his first book until after he had turned 50? Now that definitely sound…

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2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

TRUE BELIEVER: KEEPING THE CAMERAS ROLLING

Guiding religious scholar Reza Aslan through his “spiritual adventure series,” two alumni practice what they learned as film majors. A new CNN original series, Believer with Reza Aslan, employs the talents of two …

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2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

LETTER HOME: VISITING SWAZILAND WITH STEVE KALLAUGHER ’73 AND YOUNG HEROES FOUNDATION

By Steve Machuga, director of administrative systems, Wesleyan Information Technology Services LED BY STEVE KALLAUGHER ’73, we’ve just arrived by van at the Mlindazwe Orphan Care Point—a two-room, cinder-block bui…

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2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

EVERY PORTRAIT TELLS A STORY

When computer-analyst-by-day-artist-by-night Julia L. Kay ’83 invited fellow artists to draw each other via an online portrait drawing group, she had no idea how many, if any, would respond. Seven years later, almost 1,0…

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